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I don’t care what they say/’Cause I know where to find my own way
“It won’t be the way they said to go” — Cotterpin Doozer It is weird, living through Pride and all the attendant biphobic discourse and drama while you are navigating a family crisis. I’m still in this space of not knowing whether someone I love will wake up from their coma — we’ve seen some progress…
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The ignored majority.
There’s an interesting trend I’ve been noticing lately in stories about LGBTQ people, one that particularly jumped out to me while reading a recent New York Times piece about the state of queer youth. People will, far more often than they used to, acknowledge the existence of bisexual people. They will even — as this Times piece does —…
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I’m allergic to corniness.
Many years ago, back when I was a teenager, I read The Ethical Slut on a friend’s recommendation. I was already familiar with the concept of polyamory, but figured I should read the book that so many people credited with their non-monogamous awakening. Friends, I hated that book. It wasn’t that I disagreed with the points being…
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Pride was created by a bisexual woman.
There was a time — long enough ago that I don’t quite remember it, but not so long ago that no one remembers it — when the lines between “gay” and “bisexual” were not so clearly defined. To have queer attractions, period, was to be tainted by gayness; having hetero attractions as well wasn’t going to save…
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What we talk about when we talk about community.
Though I am loathe to silver lining a week spent in a hospital ICU, watching a loved one in a coma, the one bright spot of my past week was seeing how readily, how immediately, my friends and family and community members showed up for me. There was the friend who insisted I meet her…
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A little bit of clarity.
In some respects, we are all dying from the moment that we are born. But in another, more real respect, some of us are more actively dying than the rest of us, perilously close to the edge of the precipice, capable of tipping over at any moment. There is someone I love very much who…
The B+ Squad
A website for the modern bisexual.
A website for the modern bisexual.
In the fall of 2023, I noticed something strange. After a flurry of interest of interest in bisexuality — packages devoted to Bisexual Awareness Week, article after article about how biphobia was real and the bisexuals were, in fact, struggling — Bisexual Awareness Week had once again descended upon us and there was… nothing. No dedicated weeks on any of my favorite sites. No essays rehashing old and new bisexual gripes. Even the pitches I sent in about bisexuality generated little to no interest from editors.
It seemed that the media world was just… done with bisexuals.
And as a frustrated bisexual with a lot of things to say, I decided to do what every writer was doing: I started a newsletter about bisexuality. Welcome to The B+ Squad.
All essays I’ve written on bisexuality — including ones from the project’s Substack era — are on this site. If you’d like to support the project (and get bonuses for yourself, including early access to essays), you can check out my Patreon.
Lux Alptraum
Writer & Journalist